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Census of Population and Housing, 1980 [United States]: Special Tabulations of Population 60 Years and Over (ICPSR 8533)

Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census

Summary:

These data, which correspond to tables provided in the
documentation, summarize information on the United States population
aged 60 years and over that was collected in the 1980 Census of
Population and Housing. The tables were prepared by the Bureau of the
Census at the request of the National Institute on Aging. Variables
appearing in one or more of the tables are age (in single years or
five-year intervals), sex, race (black/white), living arrangements
(institutionalization status, household/group quarters, living in
families/alone, relation... (more info)

These data, which correspond to tables provided in the
documentation, summarize information on the United States population
aged 60 years and over that was collected in the 1980 Census of
Population and Housing. The tables were prepared by the Bureau of the
Census at the request of the National Institute on Aging. Variables
appearing in one or more of the tables are age (in single years or
five-year intervals), sex, race (black/white), living arrangements
(institutionalization status, household/group quarters, living in
families/alone, relationship to householder, persons per room), income
(source, personal level, family level, household level, poverty
status), veteran status, educational attainment, urban/rural residence,
marital status, nativity status, and Spanish origin. In some of the
tables totals that exclude amounts allocated for missing data are
provided for purposes of comparison. The variables for which
non-allocated figures are included are age, race, institutionalization
status, income, veterans status, educational attainment, marital
status, and Spanish origin. The file contains a complete set of tables
for the United States as a whole, for each of the four Census regions,
and for each of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and five
territories.

Dataset(s)

Study Description

Citation

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. Census of Population and Housing, 1980 [United States]: Special Tabulations of Population 60 Years and Over. ICPSR08533-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1987. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08533.v1

The data are in the form of 25 tables per geographic
unit of analysis, or 1,525 tables in all. Each set of tables shows
cross-tabulations of different combinations of 16 items from the 1980
Census. Each row of data constitutes a record. There are 534,300
records (approximately 50-1200 rows of data per table). The number of
columns of data per table ranges from 9-13.

Methodology

Sample:
Estimates for "sample items" from the 1980 Census have
been "exploded" or expanded to represent the entire United States
population. Other items are "100% items", such as age, sex, race,
Spanish origin, marital status, and household relationship.